Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-drilling activists argue that the area is just too sensitive to stand the strain of oil production, even if a spill never occurs. A few roads and airstrips in this seemingly vast wilderness, they say, could cause permanent harm to the habitats of caribou, musk-oxen, polar bears, golden eagles and wolves. For evidence to back their argument, the preservationists point to Prudhoe Bay. The weight of trucks atop temporary roads has cut into the mat of vegetation that makes up the tundra, allowing sunlight to weaken the top layer of permafrost beneath. The result: ever deepening ruts that...
...kinds of consuls general, visitors, press people and so on. Even some of our own political leaders are saying it. I know our Arab people. If you ask me whether they can see real determination on the Jewish side, that all of us are united in our determination to stand fast, the answer is no. They see confusion. That gives them the wrong impression that sooner or later Israel will withdraw. It also encourages them to think that if they put on more pressure, it will happen sooner...
...terrific things about this double bill is that most of the actors in the first play return for the second. Orion Ross sheds the stuffy English character to stand out as the cutie pie-Casanova who bunny hops his way around the stage, causing Princess Huncamunca (Jennifer Gibbs) to lustily gnaw away at her sheets. Also in pursuit of the tiny Tom is the Amazonian Queen Glumulca (Margaret Meserve), who effectively vents out her sexual trustrations by devouring whole cabbage heads and stomping around the kingdom in her funky metallicized platform shoes...
...members seek to increase opportunity for members of groups that have experienced discrimination. But few students are active in forcing Harvard to take a moral stand against the most vicious racist system in the world. Every reputed Black leader has called for divestment; how many Harvard students are willing to work...
Consider, too, Bush's decisions surrounding the import of automatic weapons. Again, drug shootings had become a major public issue, with Washington--Bush's place of residence--making headlines as the nation's murder capital. Bush balked on using the issue as an opportunity to make a public stand, and only issued his mediocre response--a temporary ban on some automatic weapons after considerable public uproar...